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This deadpan comedy of uncertain sexual identity holds out the promise of a spicy erotic roundelay but quickly turns into an earnest talkfest (embellished with flashes of nudity and explicit dialogue) that feels stiffly programmatic and ultimately false. All the major characters yearn for people they essentially can't have (even when they have sex with them), and the movie plays like a clotted, multi-sexual elaboration of "No Exit." The irritating central character is a masochistic bisexual lawyer (Pascale Greggory) who in vacillating between his long-time law partner (Nathalie Richard), his adoring young male roommate and a convicted (heterosexual) murderer, spreads frustration wherever he goes. — Stephen Holden